Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing.
I'm not really against a lot of things unless they are just pure exploitation and then they create their own copycat culture that comes from someone acting irresponsibly. That's dangerous when that happens.
As long as you're being a copycat, you will never be the best copycat.
The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.
The last thing we wanted was a copycat. When we saw [Richie Faulkner] play, we thought, "We don't have to tell this guy anything. He's got it."
I spent a lot of years working for Ralph Lauren, and he had so many copycats, from Tommy Hilfiger to Abercrombie & Fitch to J.Crew.
Because when I'm a copycat I'm never good! But when I'm Eric Thomas, I'm great! I'm great at what I do!
All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."
